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Image of Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
Author: Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher: Graywolf Press (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

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Label: Blue Note Records

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    Elizabeth Alexander

    Elizabeth Alexander is a poet and professor of African American Studies at Yale University. She wrote and delivered "Praise Song for the Day" at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. Her most recent book of poems is Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2010.

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